Metallic-rail-tie fastener.



J. H. KLEIN.

METALLIC RAIL TIE FASTENER.

MPLICATION FILED 859T. H, 1917.

Patehted Feb.19,1918.

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J. H. KLEIN.

METALLIC RAIL TIE FASTENER. APPLICATIONHLED SEPT. 11. 191?.

1,257,247. I Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

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JOHN H. KLEIN, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

METALLIC-RAIL-TIE FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

Application filed September 11, 1917. Serial No. 190,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic-Rail-Tie Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in rail ties and rail fasteners therefor, and has for its primary object to produce a tie comprising a metallic channeled member having rail engaging elements engaging therewith in such a manner as to permit of the quick arrangement of the said elements upon the tie to engage with the rail or to remove the same from the tie, the said elements, when arranged upon the tie, not only eflectively holding the rail to the tie, but serving as reinforcing devices for the tie.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully understood, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is an approximately central vertical longitudinal sectional view through the same.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view looking toward one of the ends of the tie, the rail engaging elements being removed.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the insu lating members which may be employed, the

same being partly separated.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the rail engaging elements.

Fig. 7 is a similar view of the other rail engaging element.

Fig. 8 is a similar view of the rail plate.

As disclosed by the drawings, each of the ties 1 is in the nature of a cross sectionally U shaped or channel metallic member, the sides 2 of which being parallel and the connecting element or base 3 for the said sides being disposed at a right angle with respect to the sides. By this construction, it will be noted that the channel tie may receive the sides of the tie, as clearly illustrated.

by the drawings, and one pair of lugs is arranged nearer to one of the ends of the tie than is the other pair of lugs. The sides of the tie, at a suitable spaced distance from each pair of lugs are provided with openings 55, the oppositely disposed openings being arranged in alinement, as clearly illustrated by the drawings.

The rail engaging members are indicated, for distinction, by the numerals 6 and 7 respectively, the member 6 engaging with one of the sides of each of the rails 8 and the member 7 engaging with the opposite side of the rails. Each of the rail engaging members 6 and 7 includes a flat base portion 9 of a width equal to the distance between the spaced sides 2 of the ties or slightly in excess of such distance. The base, upon the inner end thereof, is provided with a vertically extending flange 10, which is designed to contact with the longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails 8, and formed with the upstanding portion or flange 10 is an angularly disposed extension providing a flange 11 that is designed to overlie the flange of the base of the said rails, while formed upon the end of the said flange 11 is a vertically disposed plate 12 which is de signed to be received in the fishing spaces of the rails and to underlie the heads of the said rails. In instances, where two rails 8 have their ends abutting at the center of the tie and are to be connected, the plates 12 project a suitable distance from the opposite edges of the angular flange 11 and are provided with openings which register with the bolt openings in the webs of the rails, the ordinary connecting bolts passing through the registering openings and the usual securing nuts being provided for the said bolts.

inte rally formed upon the under faces of the base portions 9 of the rail engaging members 6 andv '7 are angularly disposed plates 1313, the said plates being set in from the edges of the said base portions, whereby th said depending plates or flanges 13 will frictionally engage with the inner faces of the said sides, permitting the. portions of the base outward of the said plates or flanges to rest directly. upon the. outer edges of the sides of the tie. The side plates 13 are extended a distance beyond the base approximately equaling the distance between the said base and the plate 12-, and the plates 13 of the rail'engaging members 6, at the referred to inner end thereof are formed with angularly disposed hook shaped portions 14, and these hooks are designed to engage with the lugs 4; when the member 6 is disposed over the ties and moved longitudinally of the said ties to permit of the hooks thereof engaging with the lugs. The side plates 13 upon the rail engaging members '7 are provided withopenings 15 which are in alinement, and these openings are designed to be arranged in alinement with the openings 5 in the sides 2 of the ties, when the rail engagingmembers Tare brought to rail engaging position, and passing through the said alining openings are wedge shaped locking members 16, each having its reduced end provided with an elongated slot 17 through which is passed'a wedge key 18 that contacts with the outer surface'of one of the sides of each of the ties, and if desired, the reduced end of the said Wedge key maybe slit, and bent in opposite directions toinsure the retention of the key upon the locking members 16. The arrangementof the locking members 16, as above described,.will cause the rail engaging elements 7 to be moved towardthe rails, it being of course, understood that the said'members are inserted in the channels of the tics and moved longitudinally of the said, ties to bring the openings in the sides thereof in alinement with the openings in the sides of the ties.

Before the rail engaging members 7 are positioned upon the ties, as just described, I arrange upon the tie, and in contacting engagement with the vertical. flange 10 of the rail engaging member 6, a rail plate 19. This plate has its ends provided with down turned flanges 20, they same being designed to frictionally engage with the outer faces of the sides 2 of the ties 1, and upon the. plates 19, the rails, of course, rest. By, providing the plate19 with the flanges 20 which engage with the outer sides, of the ties 1, andjby providing the rail engaging elements with the flangesor sides whichengage with the inner faces of the sides of the tie 1, it will be noted that the said s des of the aid ties will be positively retained in proper spaced relation with each other, as the same cannot yield eithe in an inward or an outward direction, and itwill be thus noted, that the rail engaging elements, in connec tion with the rail plates not only serve as means for supporting and securing the rails upon the tie, but also serve as means for effectively reinforcing and strengthening the tie.

In instances, when the tie and rail scouring elements are to be employed upon electric lines, 1' provide insulating means, illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, which comprises.

two members, eacii including a base. 21, which, for the ma or portion of its length, is

reduced as at 22, the reduced portion of the:

base of one of the sections being received by the reduced portion of the base of the other section. Upon the. outer edge of the base of each of the members, is formed a vertically extended flange 23 designed to.

contact with the outer edge of the rails, it being understood, of course, that the base portions of the members. 21 rest. upon the rail plate and receive the base of the rail. inte rally formed with the vertical exten: sion :23; 1S an inwardly extendmg angular flange 2a, overlying the base portions of the.

It is, of course, to be understood, that, if'

desired, I may arrange upon the rail plates 19 suitable cushioning means, and from the foregoing description, when takenin con.- nection with the drawings, the construction and advantages of the device, will, it is thought be apparent without further detailed description.

lhe plate, illustrated in Fig. 8 of the drawings, is preferably in the nature of an insulatin material so that the same may be employed when a non-conductor of electricity is necessitated.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a device for the purpose set forth, a tie comprising a metallic channel member having oppositely disposed lugs upon the inner sides thereof and having penings disposed adjacent the lugs, rail engaging elements for the tie, each including a base designed to rest upon the tie. and, having its ends pro vided with an extension to contact with the edge of a rail and to be received in the fishing spaces of the. rails, depending plates upon. the base portions of the said elements,

hooks upon the plates of one of the said member passing through the referred to elements designed to engage the referred to openings in the sides of the tie and in 10 lugs of the tie, the plates of the other elethe plates of the rail engaging element for ment having openings designed to bebrought securing the said element to the tie, and

5 to register with the referred to openingsin means for securing the said wedge member the sides of the tie, a rail plate between said in looking position. elements having its ends flanged to engage In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 15 with the outer sides of the tie, and a wedge JOHN H. KLEIN.

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Washington, D. G. 

